- Stars' 15 Minutes Of Marketing Fame
- People To Watch In '09
- Sports Business Year In Review
- Significant Deaths In Sports In '08
- Blog Hound Retrospective For '08
- Quotes Of The Year
- Naming-Rights Deals Signed, Ended In '08
- THE DAILY's Year-End Carol
- The Sports Business Year In Media
- Execs Predictions For The New Year
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SBD/Issue 66/2008: Year In Review
Yahoo Sports Leads List Of Sports Web Sites For '08
Published December 18, 2008
Yahoo Sports was once again the top sports site in terms of total sessions in '08, according to data from Nielsen online. The top five remained the same from a year ago, while AOL Sports and SI.com both moved ahead of NFL.com. NASCAR.com also dropped out of the top ten in '08. The chart below lists the top ten sports web sites in terms of total sessions for '08 and '07 through November (Nielsen Online).
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Top 10 Sports Sites Ranked by Total Cumulative Sessions (U.S., Home and Work)
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(January-November '08)
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(January-November '07)
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Site
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Total Sessions (000)
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Site
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Total Sessions (000)
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| Yahoo Sports |
1,873,751
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Yahoo Sports
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1,337,228
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| ESPN.com |
1,522,927
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ESPN.com
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1,284,183
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| FoxSports.com |
879,094
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FoxSports.com |
852,086
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| CBSSports.com |
606,572
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CBSSports.com |
687,491
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| MLB.com |
551,887
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MLB.com |
589,241
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| AOL Sports |
404,920
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NFL.com |
371,091
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| SI.com |
375,729
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SI.com |
328,215
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| NFL.com |
363,052
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eBay Sports |
319,866
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| Fantasy Sports Ventures Network |
236,067
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AOL Sports |
283,780
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| eBay Sports |
221,617
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NASCAR.com |
197,339
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NOTE: One session = one visit by a user in a given month. Any one user cannot have more than 12 "sessions" in a given year.
